quotes on drama

Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. ~William E. Barrett


Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie. ~Max Beerbohm, "Hosts and Guests," 1918


If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. ~Hal Borland


A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense, and is, thereby, a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. ~Ansel Adams


I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ~Dwight Eisenhower


Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~Author Unknown


Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable. ~Theodore N. Vail


Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another. ~Author Unknown


The smiling daughter of the storm. ~Charles Caleb Colton (rainbow)


We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. ~L'Estrange


Coffee, the finest organic suspension ever devised. ~Star Trek: Voyager


The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us. ~Woodrow Wilson


One should eat to live, not live to eat. ~Cicero, Rhetoricorum LV


The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles? ~John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 20 June 1815


A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up. ~Charles L. Morgan


When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke and Benvenuta: An Intimate Correspondence


"You're more trouble than the children are" is the greatest compliment a grandparent can receive. ~Gene Perret


Every true genius is bound to be naive. ~J.C.F. von Schiller


Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life." ~Helen Exley